In this post I’ll talk a bit about the video about the days of the week. This video is very simple and straightforward. First, the days of the week are presented slowly, as individual words. After that, there is a little quiz: you are asked questions of the form “What day comes after Monday?” Here is the video:

The title of this video is:

تعلّم أيّام الأسبوع بالعربية للأطفال

taʕallam ’ayyaam il-’usbuuʕ bi l-ʕarabiyya li l-’aṭfaal

‘Learn the days of the week for children.’

Three useful words here before we get to the days of the week are the following:

أُسْبُوع

أَيّام

يَوْم

’usbuuʕ

’ayyaam

yawm

‘week’

‘days’

‘day’

So, ‘days of the week’ is أيّام الأسبوع’ayyaam il-’usbuuʕ. If you have trouble with the word أسبوع’usbuuʕ ‘week’, just remember that it is related to سبعةsabʕa ‘seven’.

Now let’s get to the meat of the matter. Here are the seven days of the week, starting with Saturday, as in the video:

الجمعة

الخميس

الأربعاء

الثلاثاء

الاِثنين

الأحد

السبت

’al-jum(u)ʕa

’al-khamiis

’al-’arbiʕaa’

’ath-thulathaa’

’al-ithnayn

’al-’aḥad

’as-sabt

‘Friday’

‘Thursday’

‘Wednesday’

‘Tuesday’

‘Monday’

‘Sunday’

‘Saturday’

It is quite normal to precede any of these with the word يوعyawm ‘day’, e.g., يوم السبتyawm is-sabt ‘Saturday’, as you will see in the quiz.

Watch the first half of the video a couple of times, repeating the words. Now comes the quiz, which is introduced by the following words:

اِلْعَب مَعَنا الآن.

’ilʕab maʕa-naa l-’aan.

‘Play with us now.’

You are now presented with a quiz consisting of seven questions. They all have the very same form. Here is first question: